I recently received a call from a condo association manager that was referred to me. She was concerned about their paper rental applications. They have been using paper applications for over 40 years and had them all stored in their offices. Legal names, dates of birth and social security numbers were written in each of […]
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Why you shouldn’t use a credit report provided by a rental applicant
Here is a big reason why you should never use a credit report provided by the rental applicant for an application. It is quite easy to get fake one. Simply by Google “Fake credit report” and fill out the on-line pdf. Here is a link to one of the sites so you can see for […]
Paper rental applications? Do you know what century we’re in?
It never ceases to amaze me the number of agents, landlords and property managers that still use paper applications. In my last 2 posts I covered how paper applications can complicate Fair Housing compliance and the create personal data security problems. Today we will look at how time consuming paper applications are, how they make […]